First week at work.

I started work at Cisco on Monday. So far, the feeling I get is excitement and peace. I came into the interview not knowing anything about the job, yet came out really liking and respecting the people I would be working with. Well, now that I have the job and am at the office, that hasn’t changed.

Girls.

Disclaimer: this post was written with a comical, light-hearted mentality. Nothing in here is meant to damage or hurt anyone, so if you are offended, please keep in mind that this is all in jest and good fun. Many generalizations are used and everything is from a skewed, biased male outlook.

Girls are a different species.

I’ve heard it said a million times, and I’ve said it a million times. It doesn’t matter if she’s your mom, your sister, your girlfriend, or just some plain old pal: the things they do will always confuse you.

You may think you understand them and be right maybe a tenth of the time, but there will be times where something will happen and you will be knocked down HARD before you can even say “I thought I could handle her..”

NO ONE can handle girls. I don’t know why God made girls and guys so differently, but it would seirously be easier to invade and liberate North Korea with a lone pair of disposable chopsticks than to understand a woman’s mind.

Guy-girl relationships (not only romantic, but friendships as well) are one of the greatest heights of God’s grace manifested here on Earth. How the heck do we get along? Note the following scenario:

Guy: “I’m gonna go out to get some groceries. Do you want anything?”
Girl: [suddenly stops talking to the guy, starts crying, screams and runs out]
Guy: “WTH JUST HAPPENED.”

Mild insomnia.

From time to time I have a hard time falling asleep, and tons of things race through my mind. Here’s my attempt at documenting just a few that happened last night. Let me know if you relate to any of these.

• When my foot touches my leg, I’m not sure which part of my skin is hotter or colder than the other. I mean I can feel that one’s hotter, and one’s colder, but which is which? AUGH it drives me crazy.
• I’m about to fall asleep and I realize that there is a much better way of sleeping. If only I could wiggle my body a little more to the left… crap. I’m awake again.
• The vengeful thoughts. “Duuuude I totally should have said [blahblahblah].. then he would be like ‘Ooooo Richard I’m so sorry.’ ” Hahaha.
• The sudden realization that I forgot to do something during the day. “Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude. whoops. hah.”
• Trying to count sheep, only to be bored around 17 or 18.
• Telling myself that I’m thinking too much and shouldn’t, only to find myself thinking even harder telling myself that.
• Realizing I forgot to set my alarm, then being too lazy to get out of bed to set it.

finally..

• Thinking “hey, this would be a good blog topic.”, and getting excited thinking of things to write.

The crunchtime mentality.

It was about a week away from my three-finals-in-one-day day, and I sat down at my desk beginning to study. I had set up a schedule, planning out what chapters of which class I would study for at what hour. I felt pretty good.

The days come and go without much deviation from the plan; however about 2 days out was when I got serious about finals. Does that happen to other people? They'res just something about crunch time that really.. crunches you. We study harder, we goof off less, and are fully focused on the task that lays ahead.

Anyways, the day before my final (last Monday) came and you could not find a more studious person on campus. My eyes flickered over a thousand+ words, hundreds of formulas were jammed (unwillingly) into the short-term memory section of my brain. After many long hours of straight studying, I lay sleepless and awake in my bed in the wee hours of my morning. My roommate is also awake at his computer, doing work.

"I wish I had one more day to study; I would be sooo ready if I did."

Now I did well on all 3 of my finals (Praise the Lord), but there is definitely a spiritual lesson to be drawn here; I'll call it the "crunchtime mentality."